STALKER board recreation introduced, from staff behind Nemesis, ISS Vanguard

Marjorie SquareMarch 3, 2023

30 2 minutes read

STALKER board recreation introduced, from staff behind Nemesis, ISS Vanguard

STALKER: The Board Sport is at present in improvement by Awaken Realms, the identical builders behind the Nemesis sequence, ISS Vanguard, and This Struggle of Mine: The Board Sport. The announcement was made Tuesday throughout an internet streaming presentation, together with a number of different recreation bulletins. No launch date was supplied, however a crowdfunding marketing campaign will launch on Gamefound by the tip of June.

The STALKER sequence of video video games tells the story of fictional armed factions that take up residence inside the space surrounding the Chornobyl nuclear energy plant in northern Ukraine, which melted down in 1986. The sequence, which started with the discharge of STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl in 2007, is well-regarded because the forerunner of the fashionable open-world first-person shooter style. Sequels included STALKER: Clear Sky and STALKER: Name of Pripyat. A contemporary reboot, titled STALKER 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl, was introduced in 2018, and is anticipated a while in 2023.

GSC Sport World, the creator of the STALKER franchise, will assist Awaken Realms co-produce the board recreation. The 1-4-player cooperative technique recreation is described as a “zone-crawling” expertise — a tackle the favored dungeon crawling style, which incorporates titles comparable to Gloomhaven, Star Wars: Imperial Assault, and Descent: Legends of the Darkish. A lot of the early supplies include placeholder textual content, nevertheless.

From Tuesday’s information launch:

Every story will encompass 2-4 eventualities to play by means of, and gamers ought to count on to spend approx. 2 hours per situation. Eventualities will embrace stealth missions the place you quietly transfer between unaware enemies whereas scouting new places, tactical gunfights, retrieval missions, artifact looking, navigating by means of harmful anomalies, preventing mutants and lots of extra! Every Stalker shall be a singular character that may have the ability to improve its gear in addition to expertise between totally different eventualities so there shall be one thing particular for everybody!

As well as, Awaken Realms introduced the third installment of the Nemesis sequence, a well-liked Alien-inspired set of survival horror board video games and one in all our picks for the perfect fashionable board video games.

Nemesis: Retaliation clearly takes its inspiration from the extra militaristic Aliens. From at the moment’s information launch:

This time, gamers will tackle the roles of extremely skilled marines, coming into the alien nest with strict orders and essentially the most superior instruments accessible. However will they be well-prepared sufficient to face the unrelenting horde that awaits them? In Nemesis: Retaliation, the stress is larger than ever as gamers should survive towards overwhelming odds and the potential for betrayal at each step.

A mockup for the Nemesis: Retaliation box art shows heavily-armored space marines in pressure suits.

Awaken Realms additionally introduced a brand new fantasy-inspired board recreation known as Dragon Eclipse, designed for one or two gamers. The tactical card recreation will deal with “majestic and distinctive creatures you possibly can battle, tame, catch, and prepare.”